So dumb kids in college will be on some list for the rest of their lives because they sent their girlfriends titty pictures to their "friend" who posted it on the internet.

That is clearly worthy of 5 years in prison.

People should get over the religion induced fear of sexuality, it is no different than sharing a picture of someone sneezing, or a video of someone throwing a tantrum. Embarrassing maybe, not really that big of a deal though.

I wouldn't put it past a government to clear buildings with armed men and use the tank to keep people from going further up a street. In that situation, hand thrown weapons wont work. But, an explosive placed in advance will.

It isn't that hard to make explosives, it is pretty basic chemistry. TNT only requires toluene for example.

Because it is clearly an introduction... and does contain valuable information.

Then you're indirectly responsible for the consequences of anyone following it,

That's fucking censorship logic.

If it's 'dumb', or incomplete, then why did you submit it?

You are trying to put words in my mouth, it is an introduction, an overview. Its equally as dumb to read an overview on how to make a car and base your entire building process off of that.

And again, it's a protest. It's not a civil war.

Sure, right now.

You are helping precisely zero people by posting this at this moment in time. The only effect this post could have at this time is to encourage people to to do very ill-advised things. I just don't know how you can't see that. It's provocative and utterly irresponsible.

What is really irresponsible is equating overviews of weapon creation that has helped others fight tyranny with nonsense about people possibly getting hurt by building explosives. No shit, they are fucking explosives. If you don't believe in what you are doing then stay the fuck away from it. However, many people would be alive today if others had learnt and destroyed armored vehicles that killed people en masse. Your perspective is tainted by an unrealistic view of how governments can initiate violence on large scales.

Sure, if you expect people are dumb enough to read a single document and consider themselves competent. It is introductory material that expects anyone interested will go further and find out best practices for all of it. It is idiotic to think people will just jump at creating explosives from a single webpage that is just an overview.

Try doing the grenade trick in an urban setting. The soldiers coming in with tanks will kill you before you get close.

Is now the time for that?

I'd say widespread militarization of police and a tyrannical ruler definitely makes it the time to be prepared if armored vehicles come in.

You're encouraging real people, with real lives, to do stupid, dangerous and unnecessary things that they have absolutely no experience in, for... what?

I didn't encourage anyone. If tanks show up in the city streets and start killing innocent people any way to stop them is necessary to minimize death and suffering. You think that disabling tanks is unnecessary, fine. But many people would disagree. Having the knowledge in what to do in those situations is preferable to just being conquered by a tyranny not concerned with killing its own people.

Oh, to escalate a protest into a civil war, because you know so well that that is the right course for a people you've never even met?

At the point that armored vehicles are attacking people it is already a civil war mate. What does it matter if they live somewhere other than I, I would spread information to people anywhere if I felt it could help them.

Even if they weren't facing immediate threat of tanks, should they not be prepared?

Even if it is not a civil war yet, should they not be prepared?

The document is an introduction, it isn't a full guide.

Also last I heard it's a lot easier to disable tanks by throwing molotov cocktails into their air intakes

Wrong. That is only easy if you are able to get close to the tank, be out in the open, and have multiple people swarm it. Much harder than being far away with something set up hidden farther away.

or grenades down their barrels

Are you fucking kidding me?

I'm not an armchair general, fantasising about battles that can be won by posting fucking shitty terrible information on the internet and waiting to see if anyone loses their lives trying to follow it.

Oh. Maybe you should look at history and see how effective these have been.

Somehow people without access to the military explosives or any prior training have been making these en masse for a long while now.

This document is not for right now, it shouldn't have to be used ever. But if history is any sign, it is better to know how to disable these vehicles before it is too late. If there is martial law which very well may happen, it is better to have information than not.

No, we should decimitate the executive branch, eliminate the federal agencies, and tell the banks that loaned to an insolvent government that that they fucked up and should go after those who swindled the money.

Hahaha, yeah the government that has granted itself the authority to secretly imprison you, secretly charge you, secretly spy on you, secretly kill you (remember the secret kill list?) certainly wouldn't have a group of people in place to carry these things out.

Because equating criticism towards the government with a government propaganda outlet is really sound logic.

Because assuming a conspiracy by a journalist that has been systematically confirming conspiracies is somehow non rational.

The secret kill list that was exposed that was a direct indictment of the president feeling he was able to direct assassinations of US citizens... which people didn't believe until it was widely accepted. You were probably one of those cultists, believing that the US government wouldn't secretly make plans to murder its citizens.

Instead, maybe you should rationalize why a government would grant itself the authority to spy, track, kill, indefinitely imprison, and secretly charge and arrest people. But alas, for you it seems that a steady trollish ignorance will set you free.

Well, it is referred to as a US assassination program rather than military assassination program. Second, it isn't news that the military assassinates enemy combatants. Third, Greenwald wouldn't bother releasing how the military gathers information on enemies to assassinate them as that is an actual risk of messing up the wars. Forth, everything Greenwald has released so far deals solely with how the NSA is affecting citizens.

These two quotes in tandem:

"The connections between war and surveillance are clear. I don't want to give too much away but Glenn and I are working on a project right now that has at its center how the National Security Agency plays a significant, central role on the U.S. assassination program,"

"There are so many stories that are yet to be published that we hope will produce 'actionable intelligence,' or information that ordinary citizens across the world can use to try to fight for change, to try to confront those in power," said Scahill.

It is assassinations on US citizens. Citizens need to fight for change. It is obvious and a non-story that two groups at war would spy on each other.

When describing Jeremy Scahill, the person Greenwald is working with- they described his past work as this:

"Dirty Wars" the film, directed by Richard Rowley, traces Scahill's investigations into the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC. The movie, which won a prize for cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, follows Scahill as he hopscotches around the globe, from Afghanistan to Yemen to Somalia, talking to the families of people killed in the U.S. strikes.

So he worked on a book that had to do with strikes.. in the past. That is the only place where it mentions strikes, and doesn't mention anything about them working together on that or anything related to drone strikes.

The assassination program is likely NSA assisting to assassinate citizens inside of the USA. Previously only citizens outside of the USA were exposed as assassinations. That is a fairly big difference. Couple that with a president who thinks he can create kill lists of citizens without trial.